 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adherent
adjective: sticking fast
noun: someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of
another [syn: {disciple}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adherent \Ad*her"ent\, adjective [L. adhaerens, -entis, p. pr.: cf. F.
adh['e]rent.]
1. Sticking; clinging; adhering. --Pope.
2. Attached as an attribute or circumstance.
3. (Bot.) Congenitally united with an organ of another kind,
as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adherent \Ad*her"ent\, noun
1. One who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a
leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a
believer in a particular faith or church.
2. That which adheres; an appendage. [R.] --Milton.
Syn: Follower; partisan; upholder; disciple; supporter;
dependent; ally; backer.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
181 Moby Thesaurus words for "adherent":
Averroist, Berkeleian, Cartesian, Comtist, Cynic, Cyrenaic,
Eleatic, Epicurean, Eretrian, Fichtean, Hegelian, Heideggerian,
Heraclitean, Herbartian, Humist, Husserlian, Kantian,
Kierkegaardian, Leibnizian, Marxist, Megarian, Neo-Hegelian,
Neo-Pythagorean, Neoplatonist, Parmenidean, Peripatetic, Platonist,
Pyrrhonist, Pythagorean, Sartrian, Scholastic, Scotist, Socratist,
Sophist, Spencerian, Spinozist, Stoic, Thomist, Wittgensteinian,
adhesive, agnostic, animist, appendage, applauder, appreciator,
attendant, backer, barnacle, booster, bramble, brier, buff,
bulldog, burr, cavaliere servente, cement, champion, claqueur,
cohort, commender, cosmotheist, courtier, creature, dangler, decal,
decalcomania, deist, dependent, dialectical materialist, disciple,
dualist, dummy, eclectic, egoist, empiricist, encomiast,
essentialist, eulogist, eulogizer, existentialist, extoller, fan,
figurehead, flunky, follower, following, gillie, glue, goon, gunk,
hanger-on, hedonist, heeler, henchman, homme de cour, humanist,
hylomorphist, hylotheist, hylozoist, idealist, immaterialist,
individualist, intuitionist, jackal, lackey, lauder, leech, limpet,
logical empiricist, man, materialist, mechanist, mentalist, minion,
molasses, monist, mucilage, myrmidon, mystic, naturalist,
nominalist, ontologist, organic mechanist, organicist, panegyrist,
panpsychist, pantheist, parasite, partisan, paste, physicist,
plaster, plugger, positivist, pragmatist, praiser, prickle,
promoter, psychist, public, puffer, puppet, pursuer, pursuivant,
rationalist, realist, remora, retainer, rooter, satellite, sectary,
secular humanist, sensationalist, sensist, servant, shadow,
skeptic, sticker, stooge, substantialist, successor, supporter,
sycophant, syncretist, syrup, tagtail, tail, theist, thorn, thug,
tout, touter, trainbearer, transcendentalist, upholder,
utilitarian, vitalist, voluntarist, votary, ward heeler, zetetic
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
ADHERENT, noun A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects
to get.
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